Verona

See also: verona

English

Etymology

From the Italian Verona and the Latin Vērōna.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /vɪˈɹəʊnə/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊnə

Proper noun

Verona

2. A city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:

     Two households, both alike in dignity, // In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, // From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, // Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

   • 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread , chapter 6:

     ...it was nearly the middle of August before he went out to meet Harriet in the Tirol. He found his sister in a dense cloud five thousand feet above the sea, chilled to the bone, overfed, bored, and not at all unwilling to be fetched away. [...] They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.

4. A province of Veneto, in northern Italy.
5. A village in Illinois.
6. A census-designated place in Kentucky.
7. A city in Mississippi.
8. A city and town in Missouri.
9. A township in New Jersey.
10. A town in New York.
11. A city and village in North Dakota.
12. A village in Ohio.
13. A borough of Pennsylvania.
14. A city and town in Wisconsin.
15. A locality in the Bega Valley council area, south-eastern New South Wales, Australia.
16. A habitational surname from Italian.
17. A female given name.

Derived terms

• Verona brown
• Verona earth
• Verona green
• Verona Sands
• Verona serge
• Veronian

Related terms

• Veronese

Translations

city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy

• Arabic: فيرونا (Firona)
• Catalan: Verona f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維羅納 / 维罗纳 (zh) (Wéiluónà)

• French: Vérone (fr) f
• German: Verona (de), Wälsch-Bern (historical)
• Hebrew: ורונה f
• Italian: Verona (it) f
• Japanese: ヴェローナ (Vu~erōna)
• Latin: Vērōna f
• Marathi: व्हेरोना (vheronā)
• Polish: Werona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Verona f
• Russian: Веро́на (ru) f (Veróna)
• Spanish: Verona f
• Turkish: Verona (tr)
• Venetan: Veròna

province in the Veneto region of northern Italy

• Catalan: Verona f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 維羅納省 / 维罗纳省 (Wéiluónà Shěng)

• French: Vérone (fr) f
• Hebrew: ורונה f
• Italian: Verona (it) f
• Marathi: व्हेरोना (vheronā)
• Polish: Werona (pl) f
• Portuguese: Verona f
• Russian: Веро́на (ru) f (Veróna)
• Spanish: Verona f

Further reading

• Verona (city) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Verona (province) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Varone, Verano, avenor

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern) [bəˈɾu.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [vəˈɾo.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Central) [bəˈɾo.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [veˈɾo.na]
• IPA^(key): (Northwestern) [beˈɾo.na]

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (a city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy)
2. Verona (a province of Veneto, in northern Italy)

Derived terms

• veronès

German

Etymology

Contraction of Veronika.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈʁoːna/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

  (file)

Proper noun

Verona f

1. a female given name

Italian

Etymology

From Latin Vērōna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /veˈro.na/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ona
• Hyphenation: Ve‧ró‧na

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (a city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy)
2. Verona (a province of Veneto, in northern Italy)

Derived terms

• veronese

Descendants

• → English: Verona

Further reading

• Verona on the Italian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^it

Anagrams

• Averno, Verano, averno, navero, naverò, novera, vanerò

Latin

Etymology

From Cisalpine Gaulish *Wernomagos, from Proto-Celtic *wernā (“alder”) + *magos (“field”).

Pronunciation

Vērōna (nom., voc.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈroː.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈrɔː.na]

Vērōnā (abl.)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weːˈroː.naː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈrɔː.na]

Proper noun

Vērōna f sg (genitive Vērōnae); first declension

1. Verona (a city in Transpadane Gaul in modern northern Italy, the birthplace of the poet Catullus and of Pliny the Elder)
   • 27–25 BC, Titus Livius Patavinus, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, book V, chapter xxxv:

     Alia subinde manus Cenomanorum Etitovio duce vestigia priorum secuta eodem saltu favente Belloveso cum transcendisset Alpes, ubi nunc Brixia ac Verona urbes sunt locos tenuere.

     Presently another band, consisting of Cenomani led by Etitovius, followed in the tracks of the earlier emigrants; and having, with the approval of Bellovesus, crossed the Alps by the same pass, established themselves where the cities of Brixia and Verona are-now. ― translation from: Benjamin Oliver Foster, The History of Early Rome (1919), pages 119–121

2. (Medieval Latin) an independent city in modern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, on the Rhine River

   Synonyms: Bonna, Castra Bonnensia

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Vērōna
genitive	Vērōnae
dative	Vērōnae
accusative	Vērōnam
ablative	Vērōnā
vocative	Vērōna
locative	Vērōnae

Derived terms

• Vērōnēnsis
• Vērōnēnsēs

References

• “Verona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “Vērōna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Verona”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• John Everett-Heath (2017): The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names

Portuguese

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /veˈɾõ.nɐ/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨˈɾo.nɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /vɨˈɾo.nɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /bɨˈɾo.nɐ/

• Hyphenation: Ve‧ro‧na

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (a city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy)
2. Verona (a province of Veneto, in northern Italy)

Derived terms

• veronense
• veronês

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛróːna/

Proper noun

Verọ̑na f

1. a female given name

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Feminine, a-stem
nom. sing.	Verona
gen. sing.	Verone
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	Verona	Veroni	Verone
genitive (rodȋlnik)	Verone	Veron	Veron
dative (dajȃlnik)	Veroni	Veronama	Veronam
accusative (tožȋlnik)	Verono	Veroni	Verone
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	Veroni	Veronah	Veronah
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	Verono	Veronama	Veronami

Further reading

• “Verona”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beˈɾona/ [beˈɾo.na]
• Rhymes: -ona
• Syllabification: Ve‧ro‧na

Proper noun

Verona f

1. Verona (a city, the capital of the province of Verona, straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy)
2. Verona (a province of Veneto, in northern Italy)

Derived terms

• veronés